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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 58734

USS Passaic
(1862-1899)

Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862, depicting the interior of the ship's gun turret.
Passaic was armed with two large Dahlgren smooth-bore guns: one XI-inch and one XV-inch.
Note round shot in the foreground, that at right in a hoisting sling, and turning direction marking on the gun carriage.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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10 September 2001